Zawilinski, L. (2009) the online community is playing an important role in Internet. It’s a set of new technologies for literacy such as blogs, e-mails, wikis, social networking or instant messages. The term community is consists of group where they are able to share their feeling, senses and interest. Bérubé, M. (2005) one of the good advantages of online community is that user are able to contact, share their idea, news, matters and communicate with each other through blogging or emails.
Nancy White (2006) there is three types of blog communities including: the Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community, the Central Connecting Topic Community and the Boundaried Community.
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The Single Blog/Blogger Centric Community.
In this community the blog is owned by one owner or organization and it helps the readers to not only blogger, but also to be a part of community commenter. One of the most important things is that the commentors are able to response with the blogger but they are not able to control the topic.
The Central Connecting Topic Community.
The Central Connecting Topic Centric blog community is a network structure. One of the most important things about this community is that other technologies are supporting the structure of these topic centric communities. In addition, the personal details are not revealing on the blogs, but there is possibility to share their details via instant messaging and private email.
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The Boundaried Community.
The Boundaried Community is a community where readers are hosted on a particular blog. This means that, the members are required to be register and then they are able to create a blog. These types of communities have their own discussion boards, social networking features, wikis and instant messaging. For example, we can see those tools and feature in MySpace.com or Yahoo 360. There is not enough emphasis on RSS this is because those features are built into the technology.
The Jeffooi.com is a political blog which we can see some of those communities above have been applied on to it. The readers of this blog are able to comments but they are not able to control the topic. According to (Walsh 2006, p.34) websites are not just about a good design but the audiences are also playing an important role. The audience of this blog is been specified and covered those who are only interested in politics. Moreover, the personal details are not disclosed on the website. (Schriver 1997) mentioned that hyperlinks are playing a vital role in websites to help the readers find their own pathway, thus we can see from Jeffooi.com, those important notes has been highlighted properly for readers. On the other hand, (Dubinsky, Paretti & Armstrong 2001) point out that, the online website should have a simple feature in order to make the reader comfortable and easy to understand, thus we can see from Jeffooi.com, they have been using a simple font, colour and design. References
Zawilinski, L. (2009) Hot Blogging: A Framework for Blogging to Promote Higher Order Thinking. [Online] 62(8);
pp. 650-661. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/20486620.pdf?acceptTC=true[Accessed 20 September 2010].
Nancy White (2006) Trying to Explain. Blogs and Community-Launching a New Paradigm for Online Community? [Online: weblog]. Available at: http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial/blogs-and-community-%E2%80%93-launching-a-new-paradigm-for-online-community [Accessed 29 September 2010].
Bérubé, R. (2005) Blogging Back at the Right. [Online] 91(5);
pp. 33-34. Available at: http://www.jstor.org.ezlibproxy.unisa.edu.au/stable/pdfplus/40252835.pdf
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Walsh, M 2006, “The ‘Textual shift’: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts”, Australian journal of language and literacy, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 24-37
Schriver, KA 1997, Dynamic in document design: creating texts for readers, Wiley Computer Pub., New York.
Dubinsky, J, Paretti MC, & Armstrong, M 2001, Principles of Document Design, viewed 20 September 2010, <http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/tw/TechnicalWriting/docdesign/index.htm>
